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GhostScript/GhostView ??
Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView?
It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Thanks! ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave |
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Jim Thompson wrote:
Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Copy the image and paste it into 'Paint', then crop it, save it, then copy and paste the new image into your document. There are tiny 'buttons' on the right side and bottom of the 'Paint' screen that you click and drag to crop each edge. You can do the left side or top by flipping the image. It is part of Windows, and only takes a couple minutes to figure out for most people. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:24:57 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Copy the image and paste it into 'Paint', then crop it, save it, then copy and paste the new image into your document. There are tiny 'buttons' on the right side and bottom of the 'Paint' screen that you click and drag to crop each edge. You can do the left side or top by flipping the image. It is part of Windows, and only takes a couple minutes to figure out for most people. Paint won't open PostScript files. ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave |
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:13:01 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Thanks! ...Jim Thompson Tried Irfanview? It will open postscripts, crop, and save as, say, a gif or jpeg. John |
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:13:01 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Thanks! ...Jim Thompson Jim, You can crop in Word. There is a crop tool in the Picture toolbar. To bring up the picture tool bar, View|Toolbars|Picture. The toolbar is visible if it is checked in the menu. Select the image, click on the crop button and move the handles to crop your image. Mark |
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Paint won't open PostScript files. My linux box has a ps2pdf utility. I'll bet it runs on windows if you have the cigwin stuff. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. |
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:24:57 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Copy the image and paste it into 'Paint', then crop it, save it, then copy and paste the new image into your document. There are tiny 'buttons' on the right side and bottom of the 'Paint' screen that you click and drag to crop each edge. You can do the left side or top by flipping the image. It is part of Windows, and only takes a couple minutes to figure out for most people. Paint won't open PostScript files. I didn't say it would. I said to copy the image from the PostScript file. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:13:01 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Thanks! ...Jim Thompson Tried Irfanview? It will open postscripts, crop, and save as, say, a gif or jpeg. I've tried that a few days ago and it leaves a nasty black area where the cropped away stuff used to be. Jim, as Mark said you might as well import into Word as is and then crop there. Invoke the image toolbar. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:13:03 GMT, qrk wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:13:01 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Thanks! ...Jim Thompson Jim, You can crop in Word. There is a crop tool in the Picture toolbar. To bring up the picture tool bar, View|Toolbars|Picture. The toolbar is visible if it is checked in the menu. Select the image, click on the crop button and move the handles to crop your image. Mark Yep, Just tried it. Works great! ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave |
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:13:01 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. I use a capture thing called MWSnap for this - you can pick an area to capture and save it as a jpg, bmp, gif, tiff, or png. I think it's free. |
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:13:01 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. I use a capture thing called MWSnap for this - you can pick an area to capture and save it as a jpg, bmp, gif, tiff, or png. I think it's free. I just tested ghostview ,just copied the whole page, then cut and cropped in paint. Tested the gs file in ifranview, it refused the ps, but it accepted the clipboard paste obtained in ghostview, and cropped nicer than paint did. |
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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message ... On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:24:57 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Jim Thompson wrote: Anyone using GhostScript/GhostView? It's been awhile since I've used it. I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. I have a schematic that is like 5 transistors in the middle of the page and would like to crop off all the excess white-space and border markings before inserting in a Word document. Copy the image and paste it into 'Paint', then crop it, save it, then copy and paste the new image into your document. There are tiny 'buttons' on the right side and bottom of the 'Paint' screen that you click and drag to crop each edge. You can do the left side or top by flipping the image. It is part of Windows, and only takes a couple minutes to figure out for most people. Paint won't open PostScript files. You could open up the ps in GV and then alt-print scr to capture the screen and paste into paint then crop there and then copy and paste into word. |
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Hi,
I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte |
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Marte Schwarz wrote:
Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. I am certainly not a Microsoft fan and IMHO they should not design operating systems anymore but their MS-Word is quite a good product. Very practical, useful, and it doesn't have the bloat or leave memory leaks like OpenOffice does. I have yet to find a better word processor than MS-Word, but I'm not looking for one because it works. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg
wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. The way Word handles images is a disgrace. Hell, the way it handles text is a disgrace! I am certainly not a Microsoft fan and IMHO they should not design operating systems anymore but their MS-Word is quite a good product. Very practical, useful, and it doesn't have the bloat or leave memory leaks like OpenOffice does. I have yet to find a better word processor than MS-Word, but I'm not looking for one because it works. It's a ghastly mess. John |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. The way Word handles images is a disgrace. Hell, the way it handles text is a disgrace! Can't say that. It does some weird things such as like micro-crashes but those are mostly recoverable. Except when it hangs up on that dreaded normal.dot file. This sometimes requires hitting the reset button but then again that's kind of normal in a Windows environment. I am certainly not a Microsoft fan and IMHO they should not design operating systems anymore but their MS-Word is quite a good product. Very practical, useful, and it doesn't have the bloat or leave memory leaks like OpenOffice does. I have yet to find a better word processor than MS-Word, but I'm not looking for one because it works. It's a ghastly mess. I've done my docs and module specs with MS-Word since the first day of self-employment back in the late 80's. In fact, even with DOS-Word there wasn't much that I couldn't do compared to "modern" versions of it. I was always able to happily copy and paste schematic sections where it was needed to explains stuff, plus scope plots, analyzer pics etc. Heck, it even allowed a straight import of HPGL so you could include plots that came in over those garden hose cables. In the days of DOS! The only MS program that I believe is even higher in reliability is MS-Works. That rarely ever crashes and keep my biz databases all caught up. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:41 -0700, Joerg
wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. I've never seen that happen. It can look that way if you have Irfanview set up to display at the original pixel density, but that's just a display setting; the cropped/saved image doesn't have black borders. See attached. Irfanview lets you crop, tweak colors and contrast, convert to b+w, change resolution, and import/export in almost any format. And it's free and simple to use. John |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:41 -0700, Joerg
wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. It does not! See abse. And if you make a donation, Irfan himself will send you a thank-you email. Bill Gates won't do that. John |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:41 -0700, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. It does not! See abse. And if you make a donation, Irfan himself will send you a thank-you email. Bill Gates won't do that. Where on abse? -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:56:47 GMT, Joerg
wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:41 -0700, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. It does not! See abse. And if you make a donation, Irfan himself will send you a thank-you email. Bill Gates won't do that. Where on abse? Same thread. John |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:56:47 GMT, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:41 -0700, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. It does not! See abse. And if you make a donation, Irfan himself will send you a thank-you email. Bill Gates won't do that. Where on abse? Same thread. John Hmm, went through all posts of this thread over there, didn't find any with attachments. Maybe my news server dropped a post. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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Jim,
Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad" wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:26:55 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad" wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany I suspect the same is true of Adobe :-( ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave |
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"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ... Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? My experience is that it does OK... since PostScript files can contain embedded bitmaps, if you have a large bitmap and you crop it there's a significant file size reduction, whereas if the PostScript file is a handful of "drawing"-type command along with a large "library" of utility routines, cropping doesn't change the file size much at all... since all the bulk is in the library routines, I suppose. I was thinking you didn't necessarily want the entire drawing embedded within a Word document, even if it was cropped to the view you desire... but if that's OK, I think that approach probably is the easiest. ---Joel |
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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad" wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. Which brings up an interesting point: Is there a way to purge all this stuff in MS-Word? -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:26:55 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad" wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany I suspect the same is true of Adobe :-( Methinks if you edit everything in MS-Word, then when all the I's are dotted and T's are crossed store it as PDF, shouldn't it all be gone? -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:18:02 GMT, Joerg
wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:56:47 GMT, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:41 -0700, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. It does not! See abse. And if you make a donation, Irfan himself will send you a thank-you email. Bill Gates won't do that. Where on abse? Same thread. John Hmm, went through all posts of this thread over there, didn't find any with attachments. Maybe my news server dropped a post. This is the ID, I think: John |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:18:02 GMT, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:56:47 GMT, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:41 -0700, Joerg wrote: John Larkin wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:38:33 -0700, Joerg wrote: Marte Schwarz wrote: Hi, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. make a eps with GS/GV. There you are able to give the outline manual, if needed. You also may be able to convert the ps to ascii, if it is in binary now, then you should be able to do this via notepad, that's the way I prefer ;-) Other way is to convert the ps (with GS/GV to a editable vector format like AI or others. There I prefer emf that works well with M$Office Marte Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Nicely? It crops each border, manually, in inches, and you can't see what will happen until you exit the format box. If you've resized the picture, it still crops in the original dimensions! Any modern program will let you drag a crop box just where you want it. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. It does not! See abse. And if you make a donation, Irfan himself will send you a thank-you email. Bill Gates won't do that. Where on abse? Same thread. John Hmm, went through all posts of this thread over there, didn't find any with attachments. Maybe my news server dropped a post. This is the ID, I think: This kind of link doesn't work on my PCs, just opens an email window. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:48:24 GMT, Joerg
wrote: Hmm, went through all posts of this thread over there, didn't find any with attachments. Maybe my news server dropped a post. This is the ID, I think: This kind of link doesn't work on my PCs, just opens an email window. OK, I give up. John |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:41:58 +0000, Joerg wrote:
Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. I suspect the same is true of Adobe :-( Methinks if you edit everything in MS-Word, then when all the I's are dotted and T's are crossed store it as PDF, shouldn't it all be gone? It depends upon the nature of the edits. E.g. if you "redact" information by making the background match the foreground (i.e. black text on black background = black box), you'll probably end up with the same information in the PDF. Similarly, if you crop an imported PS/PDF/etc figure in Word, the PDF may well contain the complete figure, nested inside a clip rectangle. If you need to be sure that information isn't being hidden, you need to either look at the source (which largely rules out complex binary formats), or convert to a relatively low-level format which doesn't have the ability to retain "hidden" information (e.g. render to a raster image format). |
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John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:48:24 GMT, Joerg wrote: Hmm, went through all posts of this thread over there, didn't find any with attachments. Maybe my news server dropped a post. This is the ID, I think: This kind of link doesn't work on my PCs, just opens an email window. OK, I give up. Sigh. Then I'll end up in a nursing home some day, having never known how to properly crop with Irfanview. But currently I use Word for that anyway. For really fine stuff a program from Kodak that came with the PC. Seems like the SBC server is a bit rocky today. It choked for a few minutes a couple of times. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:36:10 GMT, Joerg
wrote: Spehro Pefhany wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad" wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. Which brings up an interesting point: Is there a way to purge all this stuff in MS-Word? I "print" it to PDF and I think that does the trick (except for the meta information you can see in Acrobat). Office also has the Document Image Writer for a fax-like bitmap (TIFF) image. Here's some info on actually purging it from the Word file: http://nhbar.com/publications/archiv...ssue.asp?id=99 Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:36:10 GMT, Joerg wrote: Spehro Pefhany wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad" wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. Which brings up an interesting point: Is there a way to purge all this stuff in MS-Word? I "print" it to PDF and I think that does the trick (except for the meta information you can see in Acrobat). Office also has the Document Image Writer for a fax-like bitmap (TIFF) image. Here's some info on actually purging it from the Word file: http://nhbar.com/publications/archiv...ssue.asp?id=99 Hmm, looks like PDF conversion is the only way right now. Sad. They did mention one product though: http://www.payneconsulting.com/products/metadataretail/ This is a pretty brazen statement, especially for a bar association: "... they won't be able to edit the file as you could in Word because the file will be saved as an image." (when saved as PDF) Oh man, has none of them ever edited an image? If you do it right nobody would suspect anything from looking at it. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |
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Joerg wrote:
Spehro Pefhany wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:04:37 -0700, "Joel Kolstad" wrote: Jim, Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat? If so, it comes with Distiller, which will convert the PostScript to PDF, after which you can just use Acrobat to crop the image, and then copy and paste into Word. ---Joel I do have Adobe Acrobat v7.0.9 Is cropping in Adobe file-size efficient? ...Jim Thompson Dunno, but I would not crop (out) sensitive material with Word. Chances are very good it's still there in the file somewhere. Which brings up an interesting point: Is there a way to purge all this stuff in MS-Word? One way would be to copy the text into a plain text editor, make a new Word document, and paste it back. Then you'd *probably* be safe. You could also get the plugins so that you could save your document in standard odt format. Since this is just a renamed zip file containing the data in xml files, you can open it up and view the raw data in a text editor. |
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Hi Jörg,
I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Postscript and Word are two separate worlds. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. Ctl. + Y dont add any border on my computers. But remember the OP wants to crop postscripts, not bitmaps. Marte |
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:05:07 +0200, "Marte Schwarz"
wrote: Hi Jörg, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Postscript and Word are two separate worlds. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. Ctl. + Y dont add any border on my computers. But remember the OP wants to crop postscripts, not bitmaps. Marte Irfanview lists postscript as an acceptable input format, although I've never tried it. It may need a plugin. John |
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:05:23 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
Irfanview lists postscript as an acceptable input format, although I've never tried it. It may need a plugin. It needs a plugin. It works okay for single pages, but if you make the mistake of opening a 200-page document with it, it will try to render the whole thing in one go and you'll end up terminating it. IOW, remember to set the file association for .ps files back to GSView (etc) after installing the plugin. |
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:05:23 -0700, the renowned John Larkin
wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:05:07 +0200, "Marte Schwarz" wrote: Hi Jörg, I can't remember the way to crop a PostScript image. Why all this trouble? You can crop nicely right in Word, no matter what format. As long as the imported graphic shows on your screen you can crop it right there. Postscript and Word are two separate worlds. Ok, it's not perfect. But better than with IrfanView where you have that nasty black border because it stores it back with the cropped-away sections just blackened but not deleted. Ctl. + Y dont add any border on my computers. But remember the OP wants to crop postscripts, not bitmaps. Marte Irfanview lists postscript as an acceptable input format, although I've never tried it. It may need a plugin. John It uses Ghostscript. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |